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    Pans Labyrinth originally called “El laberinto del fauno” was directed Mexican born director Guillermo Del Toro known for his love of producing dark fantasy movies such as Hell boy sequel blade and the devils backbone, all which consist of dark fantasies he. Del Toro didn’t just make Pans labyrinth just because of his creative imagination but also because it represented part of his life growing up as a child. Pans Labyrinth was produced in the year 2006 but the film is set in the 1990s…

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    artist during the time of the Italian Renaissance. Born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, Da Vinci became interested with art at a young age. As a child he was sent by his father to become an apprentice to his good friend the painter and sculptor Andrea Del Verrocchio. By the time he was only 20 years old he was considered a master artist. Da Vinci’s first painting took him 3 years to complete, it is known as the Baptism of Christ. This specific work it made with oil paints on wood. Da Vinci would…

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    Labyrinth was released in June 27, 1986 in American theaters. This particular film used puppets that was produced by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The movie was based about a young girl being infatuated with the book Labyrinth, the young girl being Sarah the main character of the movie. Sarah was asked by her parents to babysit her infant half brother Toby, and she gave off a sense of resentment towards Toby, because he was receiving all of the attention from her father and stepmother. Sarah began…

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    Pan's Labyrinth Essay

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    Guillermo del Toro uses visual storytelling, character traits, and comparison through editing to convey the essential themes of Romance and fairytales. He then uses these strategies to mix fantasy and reality, and increase the sense of danger for Ofelia and the viewer. In the classic Romance narrative, the hero acts as a metaphor for the divine, and the villain acts as a metaphor for the devil. Ofelia in Pan’s Labyrinth is the hero that is a associated with nature, and therefore the divine.…

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    his father, grandparents and uncle where he could have a better life. Despite moving around, Leonardo showed unusual and extraordinary gifts at an early age. At the age of 14 he was sent to study in the studio of a sculptor and painter named Andrea del Verrocchio as an apprentice. This was a location in the middle of Florence, one of the centers…

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    He was taught by the sculptor and painter Andrea Del Verrocchio in Florence but it wasn’t until 1478 that he became an independent master. In about 1483 he moved to Milan and start working as an engineer, sculptor, painter, and architect for the Sforza family which was the leading family of Milan. From 1495 to 1497 he produced a mural of the ‘The Last Supper’ in the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Young Leonardo Young Leonardo received little formal…

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    Today, every aspect of our civilized world is connected. You can call, text, message, chat, and video chat family in New York when you 're visiting Melbourne, or you could be in Bolivia and friend someone on social media that lives in St. Petersburg. The technology that we have today allows us to stay in contact with the rest of the world 24/7. Because of our advanced and technologically connected world, a new issue has arisen in our world of communication and relationships with others. While it…

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    In Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece, “Pan’s Labyrinth”, he explores the important connection of a person and their imagination within everyday reality. Based on a fairy tale, Princess Moanna whose father is king of the underworld visits the human world where she is blinded by sunlight, which then erases her memory and becomes mortal. The setting is in Spain 1944, during the country’s Civil War. The film follows Ofelia; a young girl whose father died in the war and her pregnant mother married…

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    Sicario, a thriller starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and Josh Brolin, opened in theaters nationwide this week to warm reviews, as well as controversy. Sicario finds Kate Macer (Blunt), a straight-laced F.B.I. agent thrown into a world of high-intensity, life-or-death scenarions, as she ahs been recruited into a cartel-busting task force led by Matt Graver (Brolin), and associate Alejandro (Del Toro), who are at the opposite end of the personality spectrum from Macer; they are unorthodox…

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    Pearl Earrings Reflection

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    We are to watch the movie, “A Girl with a Pearl Earrings”, by the director Peter Weber, that was filmed in 2003. The movie is based on Johannes Vermeer, the famous artist’s life and what is the story behind his painting of the girl with the pearl earrings. The movie is quit modest with the way it presented that period of time with the way they dressed to the way they spoke. It also focused of how art was important, precious and a luxury to attain. It addresses the tough life of people that…

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